Re: Request for comment on license file

2014-02-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:24:00 +0100 Simon Kainz wrote: [...] > Hello! Hi! > > Sorry for the delay No problem. > and thank you very much for your efforts. You're welcome... :-) > > Am 2014-02-15 00:03, schrieb Francesco Poli: [...] > > I don't know whether this clause can be really called a

Re: Request for comment on license file

2014-02-26 Thread Ben Finney
Francesco Poli writes: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:24:00 +0100 Simon Kainz wrote: > > I agree, that if Torque would be under GPL, it would be much easier > > to package it for Debian(and we won't have this thread) There are clear benefits for the copyright holder, also: The GNU GPL has benefited fr

Re: Request for comment on license file

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:05:42PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > This is why the Free Software Foundation makes efforts to produce a > *General* Public License; one which can be generally applied to software > works, instead of inflating the number of incompatible licenses out there. Tangent: 'GPL' w